Paul Shread

Security, backup and recovery, and continuous data protection (CDP) are the top data center priorities this year, according to Symantec’s (NASDAQ: SYMC) 2010 State of the Data Center study released today. The survey of 1,780 small, mid-size and large data centers found that about 80 percent of data centers rate security, backup and recovery, and […]

Three analyst reports this week see an improving data storage market in 2010, with EMC (NYSE: EMC) leading the way. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall and Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers had good things to say about EMC, while Rakers and R.W. Baird analysts Jayson Noland and Sonya Banerjee issued upbeat outlooks for enterprise storage […]

Dot Hill Systems (NASDAQ: HILL) is moving into data storage management with the acquisition of Cloverleaf Communications. Dot Hill, an OEM supplier to six of the top 10 data storage companies — HP (NYSE: HPQ), NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), NEC and Fujitsu — has been known up until […]

3Par (NYSE: PAR) shares were on the rise today following an upbeat article in Barron’s that suggested that the data storage company could become a takeover target. 3Par made a name for itself by pioneering thin provisioning and developing a clustered storage architecture that the company claims can save users half on their storage costs. […]

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is adding RAID data protection to its server chips, thanks to an OEM deal with Dot Hill (NASDAQ: HILL). Dot Hill’s RAIDCore virtual RAID adapter technology will be embedded into platforms based on the AMD SR5690/SP5100 server chipset. AMD will bundle two new SP5100 chipset models with a license to Dot Hill’s […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has added 8 Gigabit per second Fibre Channel and FICON connectivity to its high-end Symmetrix V-Max data storage arrays. EMC claims the V-Max is the first high-end data storage system with native 8Gbps FC host connectivity for both mainframe and open systems environments, beating high-end rivals IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Hitachi Data […]

Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) is making a splash in the storage networking market this week with a new high-performance converged network adapter (CNA) that combines Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. The news comes just five months after the company abandoned its takeover bid for Emulex (NYSE: ELX) — and gives both […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) has added replication reporting to its Data Protection Advisor backup reporting and analysis software, giving data storage users greater confidence in their ability to recover from disasters without the time and uncertainty of frequent disaster recovery testing. EMC has now expanded the backup reporting software acquired from WysDM in early 2008 to […]

Gluster this week unveiled a new data storage platform that users can combine with commodity hardware to create an inexpensive clustered storage environment. The new offering is based on GlusterFS, the company’s open source clustered file system. Gluster has added a Linux operating system layer and a management interface, and the whole platform can fit […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) today unveiled new high-speed storage and networking technologies aimed at simplifying and automating data center management. The new offerings include data storage and IP network management tools and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networking products. Dell says its new Advanced Infrastructure Manager software, based on the company’s […]

EMC (NYSE: EMC) today unveiled its long-awaited technology for ensuring that only the most critical data winds up on pricey solid state drives (SSDs). EMC, which has been the early leader in enterprise SSDs thanks to its partnership with flash drive maker STEC (NASDAQ: STEC), today unveiled the first generation of its FAST technology, which […]

Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced a number of new tools to make better use of data storage resources, including new thin provisioning features and solid state drive (SSD) management. The new features, delivered through the company’s Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server storage management and high availability products for Unix, […]